Homework for Lesson #22, The Crucible

Jesse's Essay:

The book THE CRUCIBLE is one of the most complex books I ‘ve read, and how the whole book is like surprised me, not only because the words are very complicated to understand, but also because the interesting things that happened among the theme of witchcraft. 

The plot is getting a little vague inside, and I can’t actually understand what are they doing, maybe because we live in different era, and we have different perspectives. I think the witchcraft is a little severe problem at that time, and it was kind of a “trend” which a lot of people were affected by witchcraft and a lot of people were murdered. Even though through the book, I cannot say who is definitely a witch, or who is on the dark side, but I can get the feeling of the people getting caught or cursed, I felt bad for them. Many people were actually clean, and they were affected, their family and friends felt desperate, themselves, too. I think even though I wasn’t hurt by witchcrafts, I understand their feelings, and I can see their craze inside witchcrafts.

Somehow, witchcrafts are the first kind of science and technology, and nowadays people benefit from it. But after I read the book, I can understand the feeling of being cursed and being murdered, also under that time period, people rely on religious beliefs, so with different religions and different perspectives on witchcraft, I see how everyone is badly knocked down by the dark side of witchcrafts.